Title: Making Navigation More Efficient
Last modified: December 3, 2022

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# Making Navigation More Efficient

 *  [jasonsgroovemachine](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jasonsgroovemachine/)
 * (@jasonsgroovemachine)
 * [3 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/making-navigation-more-efficient/)
 * First, I apologize if this is in the wrong place. I’ve never had more trouble
   simply just finding a place to post about what’s going on than I have here on
   WordPress. That, in an of itself, is kind of garbage.
 * If you look at the link above you’ll see that I’ve got some navigation at the
   bottom of the content on the page. A link to the previous episode, the episode
   list, and the next episode.
 * I’ve got hundreds, if not thousands, of pages that I want to add that too and
   doing it manually with a lot of copy/paste is getting a little ridiculous.
 * Does anyone know if there’s a better way to set this stuff up? Maybe a plugin?
   I don’t know much about WordPress. The way I have everything structured, it seems
   to me like there should be a way to do it all by parent directories.
 * Example being… if I’m on /parent/02-whatever… a “Previous” would direct to /parent/
   01-whatever and a “Next” to /parent/03-whatever. This would be unique to every
   parent and could be done with a block I imagine.
 * That seems to be the most simple way to do the job, but like I said I don’t know
   much about this, so maybe someone smarter than me can point me in the right direction.
 * Thanks very much.
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fmaking-navigation-more-efficient%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  Moderator [threadi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/threadi/)
 * (@threadi)
 * [3 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/making-navigation-more-efficient/#post-16258601)
 * You’re really building this navigation manually right now? Actually, from my 
   point of view, this would be the task of the theme or – if that doesn’t support
   it – a plugin or an individual addition that automatically puts it at the end
   of every page.
 * The crucial thing is that your posts are arranged correctly. The navigation should
   link the previous and following post within the same navigation level. Or go 
   by category if you have sorted all posts on your topic into one category.
 * Therefore, it is best to ask the support for your theme. Their page is not available
   for me right now, I hope for you this is not permanent: [https://afthemes.com/products/broadnews/](https://afthemes.com/products/broadnews/)
 *  Moderator [bcworkz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bcworkz/)
 * (@bcworkz)
 * [3 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/making-navigation-more-efficient/#post-16259016)
 * A parent/child hierarchy isn’t available for posts, only pages. With most themes,
   only posts have automatic chronological navigation links at the bottom of single
   posts, not pages. So I don’t think parent/child navigation scheme would best 
   suit your needs.
 * What is possible is automatic chronological navigation between posts within the
   same category. You could have dozens of categories and the next/prev links would
   link to the adjacent post only within the current post’s own category. If your
   theme doesn’t offer this possibility on its own, some minor template modification
   might be all that’s needed to gain the functionality. Note the $in_same_term 
   parameter [on this doc page](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/next_post_link/).
 * If your theme is subject to periodic updates, don’t directly modify theme templates,
   instead [create a child theme](https://developer.wordpress.org/themes/advanced-topics/child-themes/)
   to contain modified theme files.

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 * Last reply from: [bcworkz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bcworkz/)
 * Last activity: [3 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/making-navigation-more-efficient/#post-16259016)
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